scale
/skeɪl/
Meaning 1
A device to measure weight or size.
“The baker weighed flour carefully on the digital scale.”Add to my deck
Meaning 2
remove scales from a fish before cooking
“She began to scale the fish at the kitchen sink.”Add to my deck
Meaning 3
the ratio of a model to the actual object
“They built the model to a one-to-ten scale.”Add to my deck
